Tito Gobbi (1913-1984) was the Italian operatic baritone of his era. Suave, charming, good-looking, opinionated. He also carried a whiff of arrogance about him. Just a glance at his portrait in the role of Scarpia from Puccini’s Tosca will attest …
On Wednesday 26 February, 2014 Jenny, Siobhan and I caught the 9pm from Sydney to Southampton. Armed with passports, new ID cards and a clutch of vaccination certificates (I swear, some cost more than the diseases they were meant to …
The latest concert streamed by the MDCH is Elysian Fields in FIKA. It is avante-garde Scandinavian jazz at its best, with most of the works selected from their album of the same name. Led by Jenny Eriksson the founder of …
Lock down has given rise to all kinds of reflections, artistic and otherwise. This particular piece harks back to my first and still singular moment as a poet/lyricist.
In early 2015 my wife Jenny Eriksson was in the midst of …
PSYCHO 60TH ANNIVERSARY EDITION [Blu-ray] [4K UHD Blu-ray] includes two alternate widescreen versions –
* PSYCHO UNCUT . . . THIS RESTORATION VERSION has been extended with additional footage, now providing the widescreen version of the movie identical to the …
In What Kitty Did Next, we enter the world of Pride and Prejudice. Australian based novelist Carrie Kablean tells the tale of the fourth of the five Bennet daughters in Jane Austen’s famous novel. The style, language and structure are …